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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
Evidently I'm in the minority, but I liked this ending to the series. It was a long goodbye that wrapped things up and redeemed some of the admittedly less-successful books. She ends up with the fellow I always thought she belonged with, she's a stronger person, and she has a solid future without the craziness threatening her with all the sorrow it's caused her before. I thought from the title she might end up dead, so there was still an element of "what will happen?" though the plot was less tense than others have been. I think all the characters acted in character, including and especially Eric. Well done.
I knew it would be awful, but I started the series so I figured I may as well finish it. this series should have been half as long. it just got so ridiculous.
So this one... ugh. I understand it's about supernatural beings, but it was just so unbelievable. Just because Charlaine knows big words doesn't mean Sookie knows them! Charlaine, what were you even thinking? So we've got Sookie's unrealistic vocabulary and a detailed account of every mundane task and thought she has, and then she's got these enemies that what? They don't even make sense! it was like the whole book was written, Char got to the end and thought, "crap, I forgot about these guys!" and had to squeeze them in somewhere and try to make sense out of it.
You know how, sometimes, you think out whole conversations in your head, and everything is said exactly as you mean it and it just goes exactly as planned... but then you realize that everything you were thinking sounds fine on a TV show, as writing perhaps, but said aloud would be the lamest thing you could say? Sookie is the character that says those thoughts. she holds nothing back and overreacts when the other characters don't do the same. Has she always been such a horribly written character, or did my taste just get better with age?
So this one... ugh. I understand it's about supernatural beings, but it was just so unbelievable. Just because Charlaine knows big words doesn't mean Sookie knows them! Charlaine, what were you even thinking? So we've got Sookie's unrealistic vocabulary and a detailed account of every mundane task and thought she has, and then she's got these enemies that what? They don't even make sense! it was like the whole book was written, Char got to the end and thought, "crap, I forgot about these guys!" and had to squeeze them in somewhere and try to make sense out of it.
You know how, sometimes, you think out whole conversations in your head, and everything is said exactly as you mean it and it just goes exactly as planned... but then you realize that everything you were thinking sounds fine on a TV show, as writing perhaps, but said aloud would be the lamest thing you could say? Sookie is the character that says those thoughts. she holds nothing back and overreacts when the other characters don't do the same. Has she always been such a horribly written character, or did my taste just get better with age?
I feel like this wasn't an adequate ending to the series but more like a segue into the next phase of Sookie romance novels. I defintiely wish it had ended on something other than Eric just being gone and Sam popping in like some miracle cure
This book fulfills requirement 6 (urban fantasy) for the 2013 eclectic reader challenge.
I have mixed feelings about this book. I was ready for the series to end, but I will miss the characters that I have been getting to know over the past several years. Without sharing too much, I was very happy with the romantic developments in this final installment.
I have mixed feelings about this book. I was ready for the series to end, but I will miss the characters that I have been getting to know over the past several years. Without sharing too much, I was very happy with the romantic developments in this final installment.
I liked the ending, and the person Sookie ended up with felt right even though it seemed like it came out of nowhere. Overall, it was just a bit dull and it all took place in Sookie's house, she barely left it. A change of scene at some point would have been nice.
Great ending to the series! It seems like a lot of people were unhappy with where Sookie, and more importantly Eric, ended up. I'm not sure why! Their endings seemed very appropriate to the characters. Maybe people just wanted static characters, or a million books with Sookie and Eric just doing it in all of them? :) I am happy I made it all the way through Sookie's journey and I'm definitely going to miss my time in Bon Temps.
A good end to this series. Glad it's over. If write more but it would be a spoiler.
I thought it was a good end to the series. Perhaps what made Eric so attractive was my intense lust for Alexander Skarsgard? But I liked Sam from the beginning (hated Bill and almost didn't read the series because of him).
There's a very good reason that trilogies are so common - the story has time to expand and develop, but still keep its impetus. At 13 books this series has stretched more than a little thin, but at least it has concluded. Not a bad book, but not a great one either.